Does anyone know a reliable way to check how often words repeat in an essay or a long article? I am trying to understand if my vocabulary is too limited or if I just use too many basic function words. Looking for something that gives more than just a word count.
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I recently started looking into lexical variety because some of my texts felt a bit repetitive. I found an interesting approach using the Type Token Ratio which basically compares unique words to the total count. There is a specific tool for this called the Vocabulary Diversity Checker. It allows you to paste up to 10,000 words and see a breakdown of frequent words and hapax legomena. For those who want to see the technical side of how it calculates these percentages the details are available at https://lingoharvest.com/calculators...alculator.html and it seems quite thorough. I noticed that my shorter samples always have a higher ratio while longer ones stabilize around 0.5 which is apparently normal for general English. It also has a word list mode if you just want to check a specific set of vocabulary from a lesson. The option to download the frequency table as a CSV file is a nice touch for keeping track of progress over time. It does not grade the grammar or style but as a purely statistical tool for lexical density it works well enough without any unnecessary features.
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I've had the same issue before. A simple word count usually isn't very helpful because common words like "the," "and," or "of" dominate the results. What helped me was using a frequency analysis tool that filters out stop words and shows which meaningful terms repeat the most. I also tried the essaypay https://essaypay.com/ text analysis features once, and they gave a clearer picture of vocabulary variety rather than just raw counts. It made it easier to spot overused words and phrases that I didn't even realize I was repeating throughout the essay.
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